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    The Cajun Barn Analysis

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    discussed is the French Settlement type where the key feature is the front gabled end. He mentions the barn's opening being recessed into the corn crib area of the barn either stalls on both sides. He further explained that the Cajun barns were traditionally used for corn storage and temporary housing for the animals (horses, mules, and cows). Comeaux also explains the distribution of Cajun barns is due in part to the German settlers' influence. The area of Bayou Teche is the location where the Cajun folk group lived among the German. He also credits the isolated location being a survival factor of some structures. The second and third variations are the recessed entrance and changes in the roof line. The roof line changed to include a raised gambrel roof to accommodate for more loft space. The fourth variation in the Cajun barn design developed as a result to the introduction of sugarcane production. The production of sugarcane called for bigger equipment and more animal power. The need for more animal power resulted in more stalls and larger areas for feed and grain storage. The Cajun barn ultimately grew in size but still followed the same layout from the traditional Cajun barn. Changes overtime with the economics and farming methods spearheaded the adaptation of the Cajun barn design. Every new technological change in production impacted the design of the barn. More grain production resulted in bigger corn cribs and more loft space for hay. Changing to sugarcane…

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    self-actualization (Gambrel and Cianci, 2003). In Maslow’s model, only if the lower hierarchy of need is satisfied will people consider chasing a higher hierarchy of need (EruptingMind, 2012). One example of utilizing Maslow’s theory successfully in incentive is TESCO, which provides employees with regular monthly pay and essential facilities to meet their physiological needs; pension and sickness schemes and the option to join a union to meet their security needs; team and group working style…

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    Colonial Life: Carpentry and Joining Colonial Carpentry was a key asset to the community. Carpenters from New Hampshire to Georgia were relied on to repair, build, and add on to buildings in the 18th century. Many Carpentry skills were passed down through generations. Carpentry not only required skill, but many things like being able to measure precisely. Many carpenters used woods such as oak, poplar, and yellow pine. Overall, carpentry helped colonies flourish in the 18th century.…

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    American Settlers

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    who challenged the Bay Colony’s charter. Roger then went on to deny the authority of civil government. The Bay Colony banished Williams and fled to Rhode Island. From here, he established his own Baptist church which made Rhode Island more liberal than any other English settlement. Many other people who had similar ideas to Hutchison and Williams and moved to Rhode Island too. His colony became a refuge for religious minorities. The legacies that these cultures and religions left behind are…

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    Emma Dialectical Journal

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    remembered the messages from my phone. Yet another ring awakened me as I realized I had invited company. “Here” the text read. My plans for the night hit me like a sledgehammer to a nail and I sprang from the couch to grab the door. In came Emma followed by Devan and Curtis. We all exchanged a silent glance, for we all knew the routine - and headed upstairs. The rough asphalt shingles stung my bare feet as I slipped out of the window. The others followed quietly with a mock sense of…

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    Picturesque design models incorporate a variety of shrubs and creepers in the landscape. Designs that Have Withstood the Test of Time Frederick designed more than 500 projects, including the Biltmore Estate and Village. Vanderbilt’s plan for a working estate included a grand house with landscaped gardens and a self-sustaining village to house the estate workers. The Village had retail shops for everything the villagers needed, including clothing, groceries and hardware, a school for the…

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    Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. They were before the time of the First Amendment, but their irregular attitudes towards religions still permeate the environment because while the importance of religion is lessening it is still more prominent than in European countries. Not to mention the modern differences of religions that go beyond the branches of Christianity and straight to completely different religions. While a momentary speck in the lens of history, New York does have an intriguing…

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    edifices indicates that Dickinson’s narrator, at least, believes that poetry is capable of communicating a brilliance of Biblical proportions to its consumers. The stanza’s second line then explains that these “Chambers” are “Impregnable of eye” (6). Dickinson’s employ of the adjective “Impregnable” lends her narrator’s definition of poetry a sense of unassailable glory and magnificence. The poet’s insertion of the phrase “of eye” is likewise fascinating; in sounding like the first person…

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    Gambrel, L. E., & Butler VI, John L 1. (2013). Mixed methods research in marriage and family therapy: A content analysis. Journal of Marital & Family Therapy, 39(2), 163-181. doi:10.1111/j.1752-0606.2011.00260.x This study was conducted to investigate content and the use of qualitative and quantitative research in a combined manner in MFT empirical literature. The content analysis was conducted using a triangulation method. The literature search was conducted on eight popular and respected…

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    and God. That is why she does not praise and worship with a clergyman, mediator, or sermon. “I’m going, all along” Transcendentalist practice religion for the sake of living. They do not fear what is to come in the future, but choose to focus on the moment. The belief that a person must live their life a certain wat to get to heaven is not what a transcendentalist believed. “I dwell in Possibility-“ discusses the aspects of poetry by using nature. This directs back to transcendentalists’’…

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